Staging Emily Dickinson

Author : Grant Hayter-Menzies
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476649030

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Staging Emily Dickinson by Grant Hayter-Menzies Pdf

With a writer who had never written a play, an actress who had never taken the stage alone, and a director who had never headed a live performance, The Belle of Amherst managed to become an American theater classic. Despite being savaged by critics attending its opening night in April 1976, the play, which details the life of Emily Dickinson, survived its baptism by fire and went on to appear in theaters across the world. This is the remarkable untold story of "the little play that could." Covering the play's humble beginnings as well as its pioneers--like writer William Luce, director Charles Nelson Reilly and actress Julie Harris--this work also documents the modern efforts to keep the play alive. Exploring the show's enduring dramatic power, this book ultimately pays respect to the one-woman show that has triumphed for decades.

Author : William D. Brewer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137387196

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Staging Romantic Chameleons and Imposters by William D. Brewer Pdf

Examining chameleonic identities as seen in theatrical performances and literary texts during the Romantic period, this study explores cultural attitudes toward imposture and how it reveals important and much-debated issues about this time period. Brewer shows chameleonism evoked anxieties about both social instability and British selfhood.

Author : Fred D. White
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 157113316X

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Approaching Emily Dickinson by Fred D. White Pdf

"The book gives detailed attention to the principal trends in Dickinson scholarship during the past half-century: rhetorical and stylistic analysis of the poems and letters; biographical studies informed by theories of gender, sexuality, and by medical history; feminist studies of the poet's life and work; textual studies of the bound and unbound fascicles and the so-called worksheet drafts (or "scraps"); new assessments of the poet's social and cultural milieu, including influences on her spiritual sensibility; and of her theories of poetry, including lyricism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Linda Freedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139501392

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Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination by Linda Freedman Pdf

Dickinson knew the Bible well. She was profoundly aware of Christian theology and she was writing at a time when comparative religion was extremely popular. This book is the first to consider Dickinson's religious imagery outside the dynamic of her personal faith and doubt. It argues that religious myths and symbols, from the sun-god to the open tomb, are essential to understanding the similetic movement of Dickinson's poetry - the reach for a comparable, though not identical, experience in the struggles and wrongs of Abraham, Jacob and Moses, and the life, death and resurrection of Christ. Linda Freedman situates the poet within the context of American typology, interprets her alongside contemporary and modern theology and makes important connections to Shakespeare and the British Romantics. Dickinson emerges as a deeply troubled thinker who needs to be understood within both religious and Romantic traditions.

Author : Jordan R. Young
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781493072705

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Roman Polanski by Jordan R. Young Pdf

Between his 1962 debut A Knife in the Water and the 1968 blockbuster Rosemary’s Baby, Roman Polanski directed three movies—Repulsion, Cul-de-Sac, and Dance of the Vampires (a.k.a. The Fearless Vampire Killers)—that remain a crucial but too often overlooked piece of his filmography. In this remarkable behind-the-scenes look at the director's early output, Jordan Young gives us a revealing look at Polanski at work in the years before his rise to global renown. Drawing on new research and interviews with principals on both sides of the camera—including direct access to the director—Young shares eye-opening, freshly unearthed details. We witness Polanski making movies under some of the worst possible conditions, contending with financing nightmares (both Repulsion and Cul-de-Sac were underwritten by exploitation-film peddlers), poisonous enmities amongst cast and crew, and collaborators who, in the director's words, "did their best to make me feel like a monster." Polanski the provocateur is in full view here, placing actors in physical peril and deploying such unusual methods as slaughtering chickens to provide real blood for a death scene. While never shying away from unflattering or shocking details, Young still provides a nuanced and measured portrait of his subject—a rare look at a controversial artist in the act of creation.

Author : Thomas Constantinesco
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192668127

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Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Thomas Constantinesco Pdf

Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States examines how pain is represented in a range of literary texts and genres from the nineteenth-century US. It considers the aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical implications of pain across the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Alice James, as the national culture of pain progressively transformed in the wake of the invention of anesthesia. Through examining the work of nineteenth-century writers, Constantinesco argues that pain, while undeniably destructive, also generates language and identities, and demonstrates how literature participates in theorizing the problems of mind and body that undergird the deep chasms of selfhood, sociality, gender, and race of a formative period in American history. Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States considers first Emerson's philosophy of compensation, which promises to convert pain into gain. It also explores the limitations of this model, showing how Jacobs contests the division of body and mind that underwrites it and how Dickinson challenges its alleged universalism by foregrounding the unshareability of pain as a paradoxical measure of togetherness. It then investigates the concurrent economies of affects in which pain was implicated during and after the Civil War and argues, through the example of James and Phelps, for queer sociality as a response to the heteronormative violence of sentimentalism. The last chapter on Alice James extends the critique of sentimental sympathy while returning to the book's premise that pain is generative and the site of thought. By linking literary formalism with individual and social formation, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States eventually claims close reading as a method to recover the theoretical work of literature.

Author : Domhnall Mitchell,Maria Stuart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441138989

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The International Reception of Emily Dickinson by Domhnall Mitchell,Maria Stuart Pdf

Emily Dickinson's poetry is known and read worldwide but to date there have been no studies of her reception and influence outside America. This collection of essays brings together international research on her reception abroad including translations, circulation and the responses of private and professional readers to her poetry in different countries. The contributors address key translations of individual poems and lyric sequences; Dickinson's influence on other writers, poets and culture more broadly; biographical constructions of Dickinson as a poet; the political cultural and linguistic contexts of translations; and adaptations into other media. It will appeal to all those interested in the international reception of Dickinson and nineteenth-century American literature more widely.

Author : Martha Nell Smith,Mary Loeffelholz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118836026

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A Companion to Emily Dickinson by Martha Nell Smith,Mary Loeffelholz Pdf

This companion to America?s greatest woman poet showcases thediversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field ofDickinson studies. Covers biographical approaches of Dickinson, the historical,political and cultural contexts of her work, and its criticalreception over the years Considers issues relating to the different formats in whichDickinson?s lyrics have been published ? manuscript, print,halftone and digital facsimile Provides incisive interventions into current criticaldiscussions, as well as opening up fresh areas of criticalinquiry Features new work being done in the critique ofnineteenth-century American poetry generally, as well as new workbeing done in Dickinson studies Designed to be used alongside the Dickinson ElectronicArchives, an online resource developed over the past ten years

Author : Susan Howe
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811223348

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My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe Pdf

"Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops."—The New York Sun For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howe—taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides—embodies that art in her 1985 My Emily Dickinson (winner of the Before Columbus Foundation Book Award). Howe shows ways in which earlier scholarship had shortened Dickinson's intellectual reach by ignoring the use to which she put her wide reading. Giving close attention to the well-known poem, "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun," Home tracks Dickens, Browning, Emily Brontë, Shakespeare, and Spenser, as well as local Connecticut River Valley histories, Puritan sermons, captivity narratives, and the popular culture of the day. "Dickinson's life was language and a lexicon her landscape. Forcing, abbreviating, pushing, padding, subtracting, riddling, interrogating, re-writing, she pulled text from text...."

Author : Wendy Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521001188

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The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson by Wendy Martin Pdf

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Author : Lena Christensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135914295

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Editing Emily Dickinson by Lena Christensen Pdf

Editing Emily Dickinson considers the processes through which Dickinson's work has been edited in the twentieth century and how such editorial processes contribute specifically to the production of Emily Dickinson as author. The posthumous editing of her handwritten manuscripts into the conventions of the book and the electronic archive has been informed by editors' assumptions about the literary work; at stake is fundamentally what a Dickinson poem may be, or, rather, how we may approach such an object.

Author : Nicole Panizza,Trisha Kannan
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781648890925

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The Language of Emily Dickinson by Nicole Panizza,Trisha Kannan Pdf

"The Language of Emily Dickinson" provides valuable insight into the cryptic, complex, and unique language of America’s premier poet. The essays make each subject of exploration accessible to general readers, providing sufficient background and contextual information to situate anyone interested in a better understanding of Dickinson’s language. The collection also makes a substantial contribution to Dickinson studies with new scholarship in philology, musicality, and manuscript study. Cynthia L. Hallen, creator of the invaluable Emily Dickinson Lexicon, offers a detailed examination of Dickinson’s words and phrases that are lexically alive and semantically vital. Nicole Panizza, an accomplished pianist, explores Dickinson’s poetic relationship with music as bilingual practice. Holly L. Norton outlines the surprising connections between Dickinson’s poetry and rap music, and Trisha Kannan contributes to recent discussions regarding Dickinson’s fascicles, the manuscript “books” that contain just over 800 of Dickinson’s 1,789 poems, by reading Fascicle 30 in relation to the work and life of John Keats. This book will be of interest to scholars of Emily Dickinson and advanced readers of poetry—such as those in upper-level undergraduate English courses and graduate students in departments of English—as well as to general readers with an interest in Emily Dickinson.

Author : Michelle Kohler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108480307

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The New Emily Dickinson Studies by Michelle Kohler Pdf

This collection presents new approaches to Dickinson, informed by twenty-first-century theory and methodologies. The book is indispensable for Dickinson scholars and students at all levels, as well as scholars specializing in American literature, poetics, ecocriticism, new materialism, race, disability studies, and feminist theory.

Author : Elisabeth Camp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190651213

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The Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Elisabeth Camp Pdf

One of America's most celebrated poets, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her lifetime. When a slim volume of her poems emerged on the American scene in 1890, her work created shockwaves that have not subsided yet. Famously precise and sparse, Emily Dickinson's poetry is often described as philosophical, both because her poetry grapples with philosophical topics like death, spirituality, and the darkening operations of the mind, and because she approaches those topics in a characteristically philosophical manner: analyzing and extrapolating from close observation, exploring alternatives, and connecting thoughts into cumulative demonstrations. But unlike Lucretius or Pope, she cannot be accused of producing versified treatises. Many of her poems are unsettling in their lack of conclusion; their disparate insights often stand in conflict; and her logic turns crucially on imagery, juxtaposition, assonance, slant rhyme, and punctuation. The six chapters of this volume collectively argue that Dickinson is an epistemically ambitious poet, who explores fundamental questions by advancing arguments that are designed to convince. Dickinson exemplifies abstract ideas in tangible form and habituates readers into productive trains of thought--she doesn't just make philosophical claims, but demonstrates how poetry can make a distinct contribution to philosophy. All essays in this volume, drawn from both philosophers and literary theorists, serve as a counterpoint to recent critical work, which has emphasized Dickinson's anguished uncertainty, her nonconventional style, and the unsettled status of her manuscripts. On the view that emerges here, knowing is like cleaning, mending, and lacemakingL a form of hard, ongoing work, but one for which poetry is a powerful, perhaps indispensable, tool.

Author : Kenneth Stocks
Publisher : Springer
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349191345

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Emily Dickinson and the Modern Consciousness by Kenneth Stocks Pdf